Jeremiah 51:39
In their heat I make their banquets, || And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, || And have slept a continuous sleep, || And do not awaken,” a declaration of YHWH.
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In Context
38They roar together as young lions, || They have shaken themselves as lions’ whelps.
40“I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, || As rams with male goats.
Cross References
Psalms 13:3Look attentively; Answer me, O YHWH, my God, || Enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep in death,
Isaiah 21:4My heart has wandered, trembling has terrified me, || He has made the twilight of my desire a fear to me,
Jeremiah 25:27“And you have said to them, Thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: Drink, indeed drink abundantly, || And vomit, and fall, and do not rise, || Because of the sword that I am sending among you.
Jeremiah 51:57And I have caused her princes to drink, || And her wise men, her governors, || And her prefects, and her mighty ones, || And they have slept a continuous sleep, || And they do not awaken—an affirmation of the King, || YHWH of Hosts [is] His Name.
Daniel 5:30In that night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans is slain,
Nahum 3:11Even you are drunken, you are hidden, || Even you seek a strong place, because of an enemy.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 51:2-59
The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 1 Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; 2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. 3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her… Read the whole commentary →